Main questions

• How did you play differently in different versions?
• What in real life is similar to each version of the game?
• How did you decide whether or not to help others?
• What does this have to do with social networks and social capital?!

Debrief

• What did you think about while playing?
• How did you feel as you played? Did those feeling change across different versions of the game?
• When do you help others in real life?

Debrief

• Were resources and abilities distributed fairly?
• How should resources be distributed in the real world?
• What role did communication play? How did your group make decisions?
• Did you work to make things equal? Why or why not?
• What kinds of inequality appeared in the game?

Debrief

• Did anyone sanction someone else? Why?
• How did others respond to being sanctioned?
• What is similar to a “sanction” in the real world?

Aspects of visualizations

• Nodes
• Edges
• Location

Nodes

• Information can be conveyed by:
  • Shape, size, color
• Shape
  • Typically categorical (e.g., gender, age range)
• Size
  • Often a network measure, but can be something about node
• Color
  • Often community detection

Examples

With node shapes

Nodes sized by betweenness centrality

Nodes colored by community

Edges

• Size
  • Typically represent weight of relationship
• Color
  • Typically represents different types of relationships

Examples

Edge width as weight

Edge color as type

Position

• Can represent literal distance
  • Cities
  • Seating chart
• Or social distance
  • Formal hierarchy
  • Degree centrality

Node placement can make a big difference in how a network is perceived